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Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such rural accessibility is crucial to reduce poverty and...
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This report applies the framework to diagnose the opportunities and constraints faced by the rural economy and households and to assess policy options to address these constraints. The approach builds on four steps. The first step consists in examining the socio-demographic profile and living...
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As a key pillar of the Ugandan economy, the agriculture sector is a critical driver of economic growth and poverty … alleviation. Uganda's agricultural sector is dominated by smallholders with low levels of productivity. The agriculture sector is … economy, farmers' access to finance remains a major constraint. Recognizing agriculture finance's critical role in the …
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This diagnosis is part of the World Bank's technical assistance to the Haitian authorities regarding financial inclusion and financial sector development. The industrial development fund (FDI), a public instrument under the umbrella of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH), maintains...
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The agricultural sector plays a critical role in the Zambian economy. The share of the agriculture sector's GDP … financed by the banking sector is among the highest in Africa. Nearly half the population is working in agriculture. Yet less …, driven by the rapid growth in access to mobile money, present a key foundation on which to build. The Zambia Agriculture …
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identification of constraints and opportunities in relevant sectors. Agriculture funding and finance are vital components of this … Enterprises (SMEs) in the food and agriculture sectors have been growing strongly, and they can act as accelerators and facilitate …
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As 2019 drew to a close, a year when Mozambique faced devastation caused by two severe cyclones, the country looks ahead having made significant progress in terms of economic stability, having strengthened its external buffers and having improved its fiscal position. The metical has been broadly...
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The rural economy in Bangladesh has been a powerful source of economic growth and has substantially reduced poverty, especially since 2000, but the remarkable transformation and unprecedented dynamism in rural Bangladesh are an underexplored, underappreciated, and largely untold story. The...
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agriculture and rural development in Croatia, as the country prepares its National Agriculture and Rural Development Strategy and …) in the context of the macro-trends and issues affecting Croatian agriculture today, the ongoing EU CAP reform process … range of strategic themes related to agriculture and rural development in Croatia, including (i) Croatian agricultural …
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The performance of the Malian economy is largely dependent on the performance of the agricultural sector. The overall good growth in the Malian economy over the last several years is attributed to the agricultural GDP growth. Since 1995, the economy grew at about 5 percent per year until 2010,...
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